News.
Public talk by Anastassia Vybornova
We'd like to invite you to attend a public talk by Anastassia Vybornova from the IT University of Copenhagen on the topic of 'Mathematics in the Ghetto': pitfalls (and potentials) of computational approaches to urban segregation, that will happen on December 4th at the Faculty of Science.
Spatial Data Science across Languages, vol.2 - Prague
The US CUNI team, together with the Map and Data Centre of the Faculty of Science, organised a second Spatial Data Science across Languages (SDSL) workshop with more than 25 participants on-site and about the same number online.
EuroFab project Kick-Off
The team's latest project, EuroFab (European Urban Fabric Classification Using Artificial Intelligence) started today with a kick-off meeting. with a kick-off meeting. The project brings together the US CUNI, the Alan Turing Institute and the OECD Geospatial Lab, together with Prague Institute of Planning and Development and the 4ct platform to work on the future of urban fabric characterisation in Europe and potentially globally. Europe and possibly globally. We'll keep you updated as soon as there are some meaningful results, but we're excited already!
Krasen Samardzhiev joins the team
The team is growing! For the upcoming EuroFab research project, we've been joined by Dr Krasen Samardzhiev, who will take on the role of a and will work closely with the rest of the team on the development of morphometric characterisation of space using heterogeneous of space using heterogeneous data sources. Krasen holds a Ph.D. in Geographic Data Science from the University of Liverpool and has worked with Martin Fleischmann during his time at Liverpool. All this makes Krasen a great addition to the team. Welcome Krasen!
ESA EXPRO grant on urban fabric of Europe
We are pleased to announce that a research consortium led by Dr Martin Fleischmann has been awarded a grant to study the structure of cities in Europe in space and time. The project, funded by the European Space Agency, will be carried out in collaboration with academic partners from the Alan Turing Institute and the OECD Geospatial Lab, and with partners from policy and practice. policy and practice.
Lisa Winkler joins the team (remotely)
We are delighted that Lisa Winkler from the University of Freiburg has joined the team as an external collaborator. Lisa's background is in physics, but her interest has shifted towards cities and their structure, which makes her a great fit for the team. Lisa will remain in Freiburg, but will be working with us on on various research projects and publications.
Michael Breheny Prize
The head of the team, Dr Martin Fleischmann, was recently awarded the Michael Breheny Prize for the most innovative paper in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science in 2022 for the paper Methodological foundation of a numerical taxonomy of urban form written together with Alessandra Feliciotti, Ombretta Romice and Sergio Porta.
A note on Spatial Data Science across Languages, vol.1
I am sitting on a train back to Prague after two days of discussing tooling for spatial data science available in the Python, R and Julia ecosystems, with occasional excursions to the worlds of Rust, JavaScript or ESRI. I am coming back from the Spatial Data Science across Languages (SDSL) workshop and I'd like to share a few thoughts while they're fresh.
